Improving the Innovation Transformation Rate for a French Cosmetics Player

Presentation

Our client, a leader in the cosmetics sector, aims to improve its innovation to market rate.

KEPLER supports the company’s evolution with a process optimization, a detailed review of the governance and a clarification of roles and responsabilities.

Context

The cosmetics industry is a changing and increasingly competitive sector with ever more regulatory constraints that have impacts on ingredients and claims, an acceleration of launches and a decrease in product life cycles
To meet these challenges, historical cosmetics players must adapt and strengthen their capacity for innovation to launch products with real performance and consumer perceived differentiation

Objective(s)

Category: Accelerating Innovation

Identifying key obstacles to the efficient transfer of innovations to the market
Defining priority levers to tackle difficulties in the Innovation to Development handover
Defining target governance and animation to make these improvements sustainable

An effective innovation process always involves a balanced task allocation between Innovation and Development teams, as well as the implementation of an appropriate governance.
Julien Besse, Partner

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Innovation Referents

Julien Besse

Partner

Julien graduated from both École Centrale de Nantes as an engineer and HEC Business School, before joining Thales Research & Development management teams. He then dedicated himself to…

Julien Besse

Julien Besse

Partner

Julien graduated from both École Centrale de Nantes as an engineer and HEC Business School, before joining Thales Research & Development management teams. He then dedicated himself to operational consulting. Partner at KEPLER, he is in charge of the Innovation Practice where he specializes in wide range of sectors : Cosmetics, Agrifood, Chemicals, Aeronautics and Automotive.
Anne-Sophie Villard

Senior Consultant

Graduated from EM Lyon business school with a specialization in Strategy, Anne-Sophie built her experience in the luxury and cosmetic sector, integrating the headquarters of a watchmaking…

Anne-Sophie Villard

Anne-Sophie Villard

Senior Consultant

Graduated from EM Lyon business school with a specialization in Strategy, Anne-Sophie built her experience in the luxury and cosmetic sector, integrating the headquarters of a watchmaking house and then a world leader of cosmetics within the scope of retail and business strategy development projects for one of its brands. She has also worked in consulting on a company transformation mission. Anne-Sophie is now senior consultant at KEPLER ,where her main areas of intervention are R&D performance and innovation development issues in the sectors of cosmetics and consumer goods.